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1. Disappearing Trick

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why don't you say something?
this silence is deafening
putting a ringing in my ears
maybe along the lines of "how are you?"

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i never knew you could disappear
so well, and so for real
where'd you learn a trick like that?
i'd like to learn when you get the chance

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so next time i want to treat someone like shit
i can practice your disappearing trick
along the lines of you
but this will never do
until he knows that
all the words he wants to
are all the words he's not supposed to say

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why don't you say something?
you're too busy, well that's ok
i understand it's getting late
tomorrow you've got a busy day
and the day after that
and the day after that
and the day after that
you're busy too

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but i wouldn't even know
since my questions simply roll
down the hill on which you lived
before you just went and disappeared

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so next time i want to treat someone like shit
i can practice your disappearing trick
along the lines of you
but this will never do
until he knows that
all the words he wants to
are all the words he's not supposed to say

 

2. Erase Her

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i feel tired now
i wouldn't hold your breath 'til our next meeting
the way you depressed my chest
whenever you crawled in from your secret evenings

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there's always a paradox involved
watch what you say to me
i'm not hungry for you to feed me a lie
there's always a way to mess things up
if you compose them without any real meaning

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when the dusty summer air is right
i'll find the courage and realize
to erase you from my mind

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you can't see the other side
but when it comes around
you'll see, it's nice

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you'll erase her in due time

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i should have woke up then
instead of replaying scenes time and time again
but how can you once be, then never again
without even fucking blinking?

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i should have called the state
they'd take you away for much, much clearer reasons
than those that were given to me
so you could take a cop handcuffed to the railing

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at night when these troubled thoughts begin
you'll have to count them all out of your mind
to erase her in due time
and because the wound there is so fresh
you'll pour and pour the iodine
or else completely lose your mind

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and all things end
i feel tired now

 

3. An Abbreviation

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i like that she has cats on her shoes
and a little tattoo
it says life in polski
the city of portland, it misses me

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can't it shift parallel to the coast
and fold three hundred miles?
to form the highest peak around
with a train that tunnels underneath

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of which i would ride
of which i would ride

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i like how she curls her head toward me
when she's falling asleep
but when eyes close the hours transpose
into a thousand tiny seconds
they count down 'til the very end
when the ground settles home again
before i depart for an apathetic north
we will say goodbye

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until next time
we wave goodbye

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the very second
we cancel out the times
you will be waking
when i reach the other side
beneath the surface
of our north and south divide
abbreviated
i wish we had more time

 

4. Fast Asleep

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i could stare for hours
at your fast asleep face
something keeps me warmer
than your blanket self
tonight

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stop pretending and breath
or i'll put my hand up your sleeve
you return from slumber
to kiss me on the cheek

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but i am only dreaming
and you've been gone for weeks

 

5. Down To The Puget Sound

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god sent a flaming message from space today
to destroy the human race
right down, even to the puget sound

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everyone thought he was going to send his son
but instead they got a billion tons of rock
that pounded down into the pacific crown

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upon arriving, this fiery ball
destruction rained down upon us all
even down, down to our little town

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we held hands close, at the edge of the earth
as the pacific died of thirst
no-one even cried
we just all stood there petrified
as the earth began to divide

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it's a shame that we'll never know
the conclusion to our favorite shows
we will never know the outcome
of those fanciful lives on tv

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after the earth had split in half
it's gravity relaxed
down, down to your waning frown

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we held hands close as we spun into space
and we waved down
down, back down to our puget sound

 

6. Do The Math

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all your abstract ideas
exist in high atmosphere
multiplied to anyone else
and your value disappears

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cause there's nothing inside
you were never occupied
vacant eyes still unseen
as deep as a magazine

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do this math
do this math

 

7. Russian Song

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the patient pleads
please take our legs! please take our feet!
we've nowhere left to go
we've nowhere left to go

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the nation sleeps
as fearless leader takes the streets
our silence is a stone
he'll use to strike a blow

 

8. One Thought Per Second

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i realize i must observe this
that i just can't expect to know when
you're right, i tend to over-think these things
at one thought per second, i just made my first mistake

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so the mighty back has broken
and sooner than you might have thought then
i just want to settle down some
not a lot, just enough so i'm cozy and warm

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it's too soon, yes i've observed this
when distance is a complication of choice
but every second of my travel to you
is worth the time it takes, just to hear your voice

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far far away, will you stay, will you stay?

for once can things just fall in place for me
why must this intuitive sense invent
i'm trying not to parse your prose to death
when instinct wants to tell me half of what you meant

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far far away, will you stay, will you stay
if only just the weekend?

 

9. Motion Picture

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everyone knows we'll never make it
too young to grow old
this is what it has to be

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this place is so cold
my room is two by two
to save the rest of us few
this is what it has to be

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but where do we go?
this way or that way?
a path of unknown
this is what it has to be

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soon

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show me where i must begin
sign me up, sign me in

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more than happy to fit in
tie them up, tuck them in

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push the pedal to the floor
do your worst, give me more

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bang my head against your wall
a broken face, a broken jaw

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soon

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introduction and farewell
which is which, you can't tell

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you whisper first, and then you yell
you told me that you couldn't tell

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i know exactly what you mean
i know exactly what you mean

 

10. Hypnos

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Instrumental Only

 

11. The Traffic Still Moves

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no, it's not what you want
it's what you can't get
soon i hope you'll realize
that the traffic still moves
while you sleep

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while you sleep
while you sleep

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no, it's not what you are
it's what you can't be
to be the bearer of bad news
i won't wait patiently
while you sleep

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while you sleep
while you sleep

 

12. Later Days

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i can't breath in all these things
oxygen in my veins
circulate to my brain
one way out, then back again

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later days
later days

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this place is so nice
with you here at my side
gravestone framed city lights
the close of a year
near the end of our time

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later days

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